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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1999
Nobuyuki Fujita, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshiaki Kohno, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A control system for executing task instructions, comprising a higher-order module for making an inquiry as to whether or not a task instruction can be executed, and a lower-order module for determining whether or not the task instruction can be executed, in response to the inquiry made by the higher-order module, the higher-order module including a task instruction decomposition section for decomposing the task instruction into a sequence of task instructions executable by the lower-order module, when the task instruction is inexecutable by the lower-order module, and further including a task instruction allocation section for allocating an executable task instruction to the lower-order module.